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Expenditure patterns and welfare effects of inflation - estimates of a true cost-of-living index
Irvine, Ian; McCarthy, Colm (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)Inflation can have two principal kinds of redistributive effects. Even when relative prices are constant, the position of creditors worsens vis-a-vis that of debtors, unless the inflation is perfectly anticipated. If ... -
Inflation, taxation, capital-markets and the demand for housing in Ireland
Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of inflation on the quantity of housing demanded where mortgage interest payments are tax deductable and where capital markets set a limit upon the amount which can be ... -
Mobility and gender at the top tail of the earnings distribution
Finnie, Ross; Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)The increasing share of the top fractile in the earnings distributions of several Anglo- Saxon heritage economies since the 1970s has been dramatic, and well documented. To date, however, little is known about the ...